BUILDING THE FUTURE

MOTORCYCLE SPORT & LEISURE: Sytse, how did this project come about?

SYTSE TACOMA: In a way it started during my mechanical engineering university studies, when I was 21 years old. I had an electrical engineer friend who wanted to build an electric car, and he needed help with the gearbox.

I enjoyed the work, although it ended up taking up most of my free time over a year. We finished the car in the summer of 2012, and it did an awesome zero to 100km/h in six seconds.

Then I thought if we can do a car like this with a box of scraps, then surely we can do something a lot better in the form of a motorcycle.

The idea behind building this bike was to change the perception people have of electric vehicles, that they are actually fast, have